Integrated Pest Management

How Wicker Park and Buckton's Rat Birth Control Program Works—and How It Compares to Chicago's Poison Baiting

Chicago's Wicker Park/Bucktown neighborhood is piloting a community-led rat birth control program using SenesTech's Evolve, offering an alternative to the city's traditional poison baiting methods. The article explains how this fertility control program works, its reported early success, and how it compares to the city's extermination approach, emphasizing IPM principles.